Tips pour in, but body still unidentified

SANDWICH — Tips, photographs and eyewitness observations have poured in to police since Friday, when investigators shared photos of a T-shirt worn by a homicide victim whose headless, limbless torso was dumped at Town Neck Beach last week.

SANDWICH — Tips, photographs and eyewitness observations have poured in to police since Friday, when investigators shared photos of a T-shirt worn by a homicide victim whose headless, limbless torso was dumped at Town Neck Beach last week.

"We have a number of tips and as a result of that police are checking them out," Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Monday.

O'Keefe declined to comment on any specifics but urged the public to continue to share information either about the shirt and its potential owner or anything unusual in the area of Town Neck Beach between Monday and Wednesday of last week.

The body, wrapped in a tarp and strapped to a dolly, was spotted by a passer-by Wednesday night behind a Jersey barrier in the beach parking lot, just a short distance from the town's popular boardwalk.

"We've received a large number of tips from the public with information, both photographs as well as eyewitness accounts of observations," Sandwich Police Chief Peter Wack said. "They've been relayed to our detectives and DA's investigative unit."

On Friday, O'Keefe and Wack met with reporters to release photos of a T-shirt worn by the victim, in the hopes of identifying him, as well as a description of the man. He is believed to be a black male, about 6 feet tall and 220 to 230 pounds, O'Keefe said Friday. A 3- to 4-inch scar on the body's abdomen is an indication of a past surgery, he said.

The T-shirt has the name of a Rhode Island company, Windustrial, on the back and the slogan "I got serviced" on front and is likely 6 to 8 years old, O'Keefe said. The company, which makes industrial fire-suppression systems, has thousands of the shirts made and gives them away to employees and customers, O'Keefe told reporters.

Police also released a photograph of the dolly, hoping that might spur some information from the public.

Investigators are looking to identify the victim to go to work on what might have happened to him and to find the primary crime scene.

Police continue to encourage anyone with information to contact them at 508-790-5799.